Category : Indonesia

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A human leg and arm have been found inside the belly of a huge crocodile suspected of mauling a man to death in Borneo, Indonesian police said Friday. Authorities shot and killed the six-metre (20-foot) long crocodile close to a riverbank where a local palm oil plantation worker had gone missing ...

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Indonesia has inked a billion-dollar deal to buy 11 Sukhoi Su-35 jets from Russia, an official said Saturday. The contract, signed by both countries’ representatives in Jakarta on Wednesday, is worth a total $1.14 billion, Indonesia defence ministry spokesman Totok Sugiharto said. “Two units of Sukhoi jets will be delivered in ...

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A floor at Indonesia’s stock exchange collapsed into the building’s lobby on Monday, injuring an unknown number of people, according to media reports. “We are still investigating the cause, but for now our priorities are the casualties,” Jakarta police spokesman Argo Yuwono told Metro TV. Footage aired by TV stations showed ...

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A giant python attacked an Indonesian man, nearly severing his arm, before hungry villagers chopped up the reptile and ate it, a police chief said Wednesday. Security guard Robert Nababan crossed paths with the giant creature while patrolling an oil palm plantation in the remote Batang Gansal subdistrict of Sumatra island ...

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A report on inequality in Indonesia says its four richest men now have more wealth than 100 million of the country’s poorest people. The report by Oxfam said Indonesia, with a population of more than 250 million, has the sixth-worst inequality in the world. Within Asia, only Thailand is more unequal. ...

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Update as of 5:02 a.m. EDT: Indonesia is not likely to execute foreign nationals on death row — including two Australian citizens said to be part of a drug smuggling ring known as the Bali Nine — in the country for another 16 days, Reuters reported. The report ...

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Two Australians who have been sentenced to death for drug trafficking in Indonesia will be able to pursue their next legal appeal, Indonesian authorities said on Saturday. Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, leaders of the Bali Nine group, will be given a hearing in a Jakarta court next ...

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SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia could recall its ambassador to Indonesia if Jakarta executes two Australian citizens convicted of drug trafficking, Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said on Monday, further straining fragile relations between the two neighbors. Brazil and the Netherlands withdrew their ambassadors from Indonesia, which has some of ...

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Indonesia has executed six people convicted of drugs offences, including five foreigners, a spokesman for the attorney general’s office said. All the convicts were executed by firing squad shortly after midnight local time on Sunday morning. The foreigners were from Brazil, the Netherlands, Vietnam, Malawi and Nigeria. “The ...